the builders’ despairing complaints, must have felt the temptation to give up hope as strongly as did any of those he led, just as Moses must have felt it many times at the people’s folly in the wilderness wanderings, and Paul over and over at the inroads of heresy, immaturity, and immorality in the churches he planted, and Jesus again and again at the spiritual dullness of his own closest disciples. Yet they all kept going, just as true spiritual leaders today will keep going despite misunderstanding,